Data Products & Platform Thinking

The shift from centralised data warehousing to data-as-a-product fundamentally changes how organisations build, own, and govern their data landscape. It moves responsibility from central teams to domain teams, standardises interfaces instead of schemas, and embeds quality and governance into the product itself.

But the shift is not just architectural. It requires new roles, new ownership models, and a different relationship between data producers and consumers. Most organisations underestimate the organisational change required.

This topic covers the data product paradigm, platform thinking, quality approaches, and how governance roles evolve when data becomes a product.